Work of the Month: Combine in a Cornfield by Bernard Cheese
Combine in a Cornfield, Lithograph, 1961 Bernard Cheese met fellow student Sheila Robinson at the Royal College of Art (RCA), and they married in 1951. Both artists worked on Festival of Britain murals alongside their art-school tutor and close friend Edward Bawden....
Work of the Month: Oak Cottage by Charles Mahoney
Oak Cottage, Oil on Canvas Cyril (known as Charles) Mahoney (1903 – 1968) studied at the Royal College of Art with Edward Bawden and Eric Ravilious. The three artists won the commission to paint the murals at Morley College in Southwark between 1928 and 1930....
Work of the Month: My Mother’s House by Chloë Cheese
My Mother’s House, Lithograph, 1986. Sheila Robinson was a pupil of Edward Bawden at the Royal College of Art. Encouraged by him, she moved to Great Bardfield in 1953, and immersed herself in the creative life there while raising two small children, Ben and...
Work of the Month: Young Chickens by Walter Hoyle
Young Chickens, Gouache, pen and ink, 1958. ‘If I were asked which were the best years,’ wrote Walter Hoyle (1922 – 2000) ‘I would not hesitate to answer those spent in and around Great Bardfield and Great Saling’. During that happy time, between 1952 and...